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[1] A. Bar-Nun, E. Heifetz, and D. Prialnik. Thermal evolution of Comet P/Tempel 1 -Representing the group of targets for the CRAF and CNSR missions. Icarus, 79:116–124, May 1989. PDF
[2] P. Alpert, Y. Shay-El, and E. Heifetz. A comment on the geostrophic wind divergence. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 121:227–228, January 1995. PDF
[3] Y. Shoshani, E. Heifetz, D. Prialnik, and M. Podolak. A Model for the changing pore structure and dust grain size distribution in a porous comet nucleus. Icarus, 126:342–350, April 1997. PDF
[4] E. Heifetz, P. Alpert, and A. da Silva. On the parcel method and the baroclinic wedge of instability. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 55:788–795, March 1998. PDF
[5] E. Heifetz, C. H. Bishop, and P. Alpert. Counter-propagating Rossby waves in the barotropic Rayleigh model of shear instability. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 125:2835–2853, October 1999. PDF
[6] C. H. Bishop and E. Heifetz. Apparent absolute instability and the continuous spectrum. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 57:3592–3608, November 2000. PDF
[7] E. Heifetz, and B. F. Farrell. Generalized stability of nongeostrophic baroclinic shear flow. Part I: Large Richardson number regime. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 60:2083–2100, September 2003. PDF
[8] E. Heifetz, C. H. Bishop, B. J. Hoskins, and J. Methven. The counter-propagating Rossby-wave perspective on baroclinic instability. I: Mathematical basis. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 130:211–231, January 2004. PDF
[9] E. Heifetz, J. Methven, B. J. Hoskins, and C. H. Bishop. The counter-propagating Rossby-wave perspective on baroclinic instability. II: Application to the Charney model. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 130:233–258, January 2004. PDF
[10] J. Methven, E. Heifetz, B. J. Hoskins, and C. H. Bishop. The counter-propagating Rossby-wave perspective on baroclinic instability. Part III: Primitive-equation disturbances on the sphere. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 131:1393–1424, April 2005. PDF
[11] J. Methven, B. J. Hoskins, E. Heifetz, and C. H. Bishop. The counter-propagating Rossby-wave perspective on baroclinic instability. Part IV: Nonlinear life cycles. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 131:1425–1440, April 2005. Link to PDF
[12] E. Heifetz, and J. Methven. Relating optimal growth to counter propagating Rossby waves in shear instability. Physics of Fluids, 17(6):064107–064107, June 2005. PDF
[13] M. LéVy, Y. Lehahn, J.-M. André, L. MéMery, H. Loisel, and E. Heifetz. Production regimes in the northeast Atlantic: A study based on Sea-viewing Wide Field-of view Sensor (SeaWiFS) chlorophyll and ocean general circulation model mixed layer depth. Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans), 110:C07S10, July 2005. PDF
[14] E. Heifetz, A. Agnon, and S. Marco. Soft sediment deformation by Kelvin Helmholtz instability: A case from Dead Sea earthquakes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 236:497–504, July 2005. PDF
[15] E. Heifetz, Y. Reuveni, A. Gelfgat, E. Kit, and J. Methven. The counter-propagating Rossby wave perspective on Kelvin Helmholtz instability as a limiting case of a Rayleigh shear layer with zero width. Physics of Fluids, 18(1):018101–018101, January 2006. PDF
[16] O. M. Umurhan and E. Heifetz. Holmboe modes revisited. Physics of Fluids, 19(6):064102–064102, June 2007. PDF
[17] N. Harnik and E. Heifetz. Relating over-reflection and wave geometry to the counter-propagating Rossby wave perspective: Toward a deeper mechanistic understanding of shear instability. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 64:2238, July 2007. PDF
[18] Y. Lehahn, F. D’Ovidio, M. LéVy, and E. Heifetz. Stirring of the northeast Atlantic spring bloom: A Lagrangian analysis based on multisatellite data. Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans), 112:C08005, August 2007. PDF
[19] Heifetz, E., N. Paldor, Y. Oreg, A. Stern, and I. Merksamer. Higher-order corrections for Rossby waves in a zonal channel on the beta-plane. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 133:1893–1898, October 2007. PDF
[20] E. Heifetz and B. F. Farrell. Generalized stability of nongeostrophic baroclinic shear Flow. Part II: Intermediate Richardson Number Regime. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 64:4366, December 2007. PDF
[21] E. Heifetz and B. F. Farrell. Non-normal growth in symmetric shear flow. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 134:1627–1633, July 2008. PDF
[22] N. Harnik, E. Heifetz, O. M. Umurhan, and F. Lott. A buoyancy-vorticity wave interaction approach to stratified shear flow. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences, 65:2615–2630, August 2008. PDF
[23] T. Levi, R. Weinberger, Y. Eyal, V. Lyakhovsky, and E. Heifetz. Velocities and driving pressures of clay-rich sediments injected into clastic dykes during earthquakes. Geophysical Journal International, 175:1095–1107, December 2008. PDF
[24] N. Paldor, Y. Dvorkin, and Heifetz, E. Divergent versus Nondivergent instabilities of piecewise uniform shear flows on the f - Plane. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 39:1685–1699, July 2009. PDF
[25] E. Heifetz, N. Harnik, and T. Tamarin. Canonical Hamiltonian representation of pseudoenergy in shear flows using counter-propagating Rossby waves. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 135:2161–2167, October 2009. PDF
[26] B. Ziv, H. Saaroni, M. Romem, E. Heifetz, N. Harnik, and A. Baharad. Analysis of conveyor belts in winter Mediterranean cyclones. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, January 2010. PDF
[27] N. Wetzler, S. Marco, and E. Heifetz. Quantitative analysis of seismogenic shear induced turbulence in lake sediments. Geology, 38:303–306, April 2010. PDF
[28] Y. Amitai, Y. Lehahn, A. Lazar, and E. Heifetz. Surface circulation of the eastern Mediterranean Levantine basin: Insights from analyzing 14 years of satellite altimetry data. Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans), 115(14):10058, October 2010. PDF
[29] A Rabinovich, O.M. Umurhan, N Harnik, F Lott, and E. Heifetz. Vorticity inversion and action-at-a-distance instability in stably stratified shear flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 670:301–325, March 2011. PDF
[30] Y. Lehahn, F. d’Ovidio, M. Lévy, Y. Amitai, and E. Heifetz. Long range transport of a quasi isolated chlorophyll patch by an Agulhas ring. Geophysical Research Letters, 38:L16610, August 2011. PDF
[31] J. R. Carpenter, E.W. Tedford, E. Heifetz, and G. A. Lawrence. Instability in stratified shear flow: Review of a physical interpretation based on interacting waves. Applied Mechanics Reviews, 64(6):061001, November 2011. PDF
[32] J. Kutsher, N. Haikin, A. Sharon, and E. Heifetz. On the Formation of an elevated nocturnal inversion layer in the presence of a low-level jet: A case study. Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 144:441–449, September 2012. PDF
[33] H. Vitoshkin, E. Heifetz, A. Y. Gelfgat, and N. Harnik. On the role of vortex stretching in energy optimal growth of three-dimensional perturbations on plane parallel shear flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 707:369–380, September 2012. PDF
[34] S. Efrati,. ...and E. Heifetz. et al. Intrusion of coastal waters into the pelagic eastern Mediterranean: in situ and satellite-based characterization. Biogeosciences, 10:3349–3357, May 2013. PDF
[35] A. Lazar, A. Stegner, and E. Heifetz. Inertial instability of intense stratified anticyclones. Part 1. Generalized stability criterion. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 732:457–484, October 2013. PDF
[36] E. Heifetz, and Rodrigo Caballero. An alternative view on the role of the beta-effect in the Rossby wave propagation mechanism. Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography, 66(1):22672, November 2014. PDF
[37] N. Harnik, D. G. Dritschel, and E. Heifetz. On the equilibration of asymmetric barotropic instability. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 140:2444–2464, October 2014. PDF
[38] E. Heifetz, J. Mak, J. Nycander, and O. M. Umurhan. Interacting vorticity waves as an instability mechanism for magnetohydrodynamic shear instabilities. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 767:199–225, March 2015. PDF
[39] L. Biancofiore, F. Gallaire, and E. Heifetz. Interaction between counter-propagating Rossby waves and capillary waves in planar shear flows. Physics of Fluids, 27(4):044104, April 2015. PDF
[40] T. Tamarin, E. Heifetz, O. M. Umurhan, and R. Yellin. On the nonnormal-nonlinear interaction mechanism between counter-propagating Rossby waves. Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 29:205–224, June 2015. PDF
[41] E. Heifetz. and J. Mak. Stratified shear flow instabilities in the non-Boussinesq regime. Physics of Fluids, 27(8):086601, August 2015. PDF
[42] E. Heifetz. and E. Cohen. Toward a Thermo-Hydrodynamic Like Description of Schrödinger Equation via the Madelung Formulation and Fisher Information. Foundations of Physics, 45:1514–1525, November 2015. PDF
[43] R. Yellin-Bergovoy, E. Heifetz, and O. M. Umurhan. On the mechanism of self-gravitating Rossby interfacial waves in proto-stellar accretion discs. Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, 110:274–294, May 2016. PDF
[44] E. Heifetz, R. Tsekov, E. Cohen, and Z. Nussinov. On Entropy Production in the Madelung Fluid and the Role of Bohm’s Potential in Classical Diffusion. Foundations of Physics, 46:815–824, July 2016. PDF
[45] T. Tamarin, J. R. Maddison, E. Heifetz, and D. P. Marshall. A Geometric Interpretation of Eddy Reynolds Stresses in Barotropic Ocean Jets. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 46:2285–2307, August 2016. PDF
[46] J.R. Carpenter, A. Guha, and E. Heifetz. A physical interpretation of the wind-wave instability as interacting waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 47(6):1441–1455, June 2017. PDF
[47] Y. Cohen, N. Harnik, E. Heifetz, D.S. Nolan, D. Tao, and F. Zhang. On the violation of gradient wind balance at the top of tropical cyclones. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(15):8017–8026, 2017. 2017GL074552, August 2017. PDF
[48] R. Tsekov, E. Heifetz, and E. Cohen. Derivation of the local-mean stochastic quantum force. Fluctuation and Noise Letters, 16(3):1750028; 12, September 2017. PDF
[49] L. Biancofiore, E. Heifetz, J. Hoepffner, and F. Gallaire. Understanding the destabilizing role for surface tension in planar shear flows in terms of wave interaction. Physical Review Fluids, 2:103901, October 2017. PDF
[50] R. Yellin-Bergovoy, E. Heifetz, and O.M. Umurhan. Physical mechanism of centrifugal- gravity wave resonant instability in azimuthally symmetric swirling flows. Physical Review Fluids, 2(10):104801, October 2017. Link to PDF
[51] M. Dikpati, P.S. Cally, S.W. McIntosh, and E. Heifetz. The origin of the "seasons" in space weather. Nature Scientific Reports, 7:14750, November 2017. PDF
[52] E. Heifetz, and A. Guha. A generalized action-angle representation of wave interaction in stratified shear flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 834:220-236, January 2018. PDF
[53] R. Tsekov, E. Heifetztsekov_2018_epl_122_40002.pdf, and E. Cohen. Relating quantum mechanics with hydrodynamic turbulence. European Physics Letters, 4:40002, May 2018. PDF
[54] E. Heifetz, and A. Guha. Normal form of synchronization and resonance between vorticity waves in shear flow instability. Physical Review E., 100(4):043105, October 2019. PDF
[55] Y. Cohen, S.L. Durden, N. Harnik, and E. Heifetz. Relating observations of gradient nonbalance at the top of hurricanes with their warm core structures, Geophysical Research Letters, 46:10.1029/2019GL084248, October 2019. PDF
[56] E. Heifetz, R. Maor and A. Guha. On the role of the baroclinic torque on surface gravity wave propagation. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. Accepted. PDF
Submitted papers
[57] J. Nycander, and E. Heifetz. Isovortical pseudoenergy – variational derivation and mechanistic interpretation of Arnol'd and Ripa conditions for nonlinear shear instability. Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
[58] E. Heifetz, and I. Plochotnikov. Mapping the quantum bouncer energy states onto stable hydrostatic equilibria of a compressible gas. Physical Review Research.
[59] E. Heifetz, and I. Plochotnikov. Relating particle ensemble mean dynamics and pressure fluctuations with quantum tunneling. Physical Review Research
[60] A. Shmuel and E. Heifetz. Firebreak Planning by an Optimization Algorithm. International Journal of Wildland Fire.